Show Great Guns Rain Death in Flanders a w w I Almost Complete Cessation Cessation Cessation Cessa Cessa- Attacks Attacks Attacks At At- tion of Infantry tacks and Storming of Trenches Trenches' Occurs By ED L. L KEEN LONDON July 22 Official Official statements from all all belligerent war war offices offices' today agreed greed that there has been an almost complete complete com corn cessation along the Flan Flanders ers battle line of Sf t trench storming or or in infantry infantry infantry in- in fantry attacks Instead tl th there thre re is raping rap bitter artillery duel K a ing tonight a hurling of ot a constant stream of ot shells I from the big and small guns of ot both sides cross across no mans man's land Gent General ral Haig's Haigs report tonight was in its brevity It said Today there were no actions of ot im importance im- im parlance Yesterday six hostile a aeroplanes aero atro- ro- ro planes were destroyed and several sev ral forced to descend beyond our our lines Jines iines One of our aeroplanes was was down and two are mi missing sing The British earlier re report report re- re port merely accounted for the artillery duel The Frt French c added information that the German guns gune were i roaring oaring an assault in the Fleury I sector and south of ot Damloup North artillery duel was of Saint Die a fierce progressing The German Va war r of office rice I temporary increase to reported a the highest intensity of fire on both sides Ithe Meuse sector and I I confirmed l Ih the lh lively interchange of ot or Fleury In pt tl smas or orthe of the British battering ram against the German Gennan line within the next da I. I lines of of the or r r so It Tt read lead between today toda General Haig's Haigs succinct report a and ard d deduced tonight that the artillery for another snottier artillery assault assault as as- sault wa V under way Military experts have educated the public in the rules of ot the o offensive game garne The Tue Londoner expects Halg's Haigs m men n to progress by Jumps and be between between lie lie- tween each jump It is realized there must mutt be pauses when the Jumper jumner can get set for the next leap forward The positions captured must he be strengthened troops brought forward as reserves to withstand the invariable ble counter attacks and huge cannon moved up UI to sweep the new positions positions positions of ot the enemy under attack One other fact which supported the gent general ral belief helier here that General Geneal Haig was preparing for a 1 renewal of ot the drive was the tho statement in the German I official statement of ot yesterday that British cavalry was in use against the I German positions on the Somme This I Is the ti tit first t time that cavalry has been used in trench storming operations I during the war according to the German German Ger Ger- man version but version but here In London I Ger-I the explanation generally credited is that the cavalry was participating in general general gen gen- genI I eral operations feeling out the German positions The greatest satisfaction was expressed ex cx ex expressed pressed here at the rapid and app app- apps- apps r successful consolidation of ot neva neva- ly 13 won positions by the th allied troop as evidenced by Inability of or the Te c tons to wrest them back again l I Iwas f was conceded the artillery hUng fighting must be of the most violent character the the Germans fighting desperately to retrieve their old positions barely made secure in defensive e works by bythe bythe bythe the allies and the allies allieR themselves es striving through a hail hall of or shells to blast awa away the ground wd level German entrenchments and destroy barbed wire entanglements preparatory to further development of ot the big push The German official statement of ot to today today today to- to day confirmed the almost exclusive artillery artillery ar az- ar- ar tillery character of ot the fighting It held along the Somme the tho allied forces had been unable to reassume any large uniform thrust after atter the previous previous ous da days day's s defeat and claimed that separate attacks had been repulsed without effort That wood is still the scene of or desperate fighting wa was indicated in the German stat statement that several dozen British had been captured in a British nest there I I I i i |